Jamie Colby is known as a national news correspondent and anchor for
Fox News Channel (FNC), a partnership she began in July 2003. She is a
co-host on “America's News Headquarters” on
Saturdays at 1PM Eastern (with Kelly Wright) and on Sundays at 10AM
Eastern (with Eric Shawn). Colby received the influential Edward R.
Murrow National Award in 2002 for her coverage of the 11 September 2001
attacks. She also won the Gracie Allen Award for investigative
reporting in 2000 and the Clarion Award from the Association for
Women in Communications. She was named Television Week's “Rising
News Star To Watch.”

In February 2010, Colby launched a book called “Back to Life
After a Heart Crisis: A Doctor and His Wife Share Their 8-Step Cardiac
Comeback Plan,” which she authored with her husband Dr.
Marc Wallack.

Doogie Howser

Childhood and Family:

Jamie Colby was born on December 21, 1970, in Forest Hills, New York,
as Jamie Nell Colby. Her father is Marty Colby. Her brother, Jonathan
T. Colby, is a Miami Dade County circuit court judge in Florida. Jamie
received the nickname “Doogie Howser” (after the TV
character who began college at a young age) because she was attending
the University of Miami International School of Business at age 14,
earning a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting as well as
earning her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School of
Law in 1993 at age 22.

Jamie is married to Marc K. Wallack, who is Chief of Surgery at
Metropolitan Hospital in New York City. They have one son
together.

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Career:

While waiting to take the Bar (to become a lawyer), Jamie Colby was
asked to substitute at a television station for an anchor who was
absent for maternity reasons. She enjoyed it very much that she decided
to pursue a career in journalism. She, however, continued to take and
pass the bar. Colby worked as a correspondent for CNN and was an anchor
and reporter for CBS News including substitute anchor for CBS “Up
to the Minute.” Additionally, she served as an anchor for
WPIX/WB-11 New York, a reporter at WNYW FOX 5 New York, and a
correspondent/co-anchor on FOX News' WebMD
TV.

In July 2003, Colby began working for Fox News Channel as national news
correspondent and anchor. Among FNC shows she has appeared in include
“America Live with Megyn Kelly,” “Happening
Now,” “America's Newsroom,” “Fox Report w/
Shepard Smith” and “Sunday Housecall.” Colby hosts
“America's News Headquarters” on Saturdays at 1PM Eastern
with Kelly Wright on Sundays at 10AM Eastern with Eric Shawn.

In 2010, Colby was featured as Alternate Juror on the comedy film
“One Angry Man,” starring Jackie Mason, Raoul Felder and
Mike Gallagher.

Apart from her career as a journalist, Colby is an attorney
admitted to practice law in New York, California, Florida and the
District of Columbia. She served in private practice for a decade. She
started her law practice with a Hollywood entertainment firm that
assigned her to “The Tonight Show.” Corby worked for
Johnny Carson during his contract renewal with NBC and also his
divorce.